Re: [Elecraft] LDEs (Long-Delayed Echos)

[PKA]

Hi Ted
You can hear quite strong echoes on low bands (maybe up to about 5MHz as far as 
I remember). Signals follow earth magnetic field - bouncing back when they 
reach the southern hemisphere -  and the delay therefore depends on your 
magnetic latitude (distance from the magnetic pole). It is quite a long path 
and for my QTH the delay is 237 msec which is so long that it is easy to hear 
your own echo with any modern rig. In fact you would think someone is jamming 
you until you find out its yourself! The phenomenon has been researched and is 
well understood.

It seems to occur around winter solstice and I have heard it several times, 
mostly 4 to 5 hours after sunset. I wrote an article about it in QST Nov 2009 
(Observation of Long Delayed Echoes on 80 Meters) and I can send you a copy if 
you mail me off-list. I can also send you an audio recording so you can hear 
what it sounds like. Anyone else who wants a copy (article and/or sound 
recording) please contact off-list.

Good luck - I expect chances will be best on 80m in a few weeks time from now 
on until around February.

73/Paul
OZ4UN

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> On 28 Nov 2015, at 04:38, Dauer, Edward  wrote:
> 
> I just finished reading Eric Nichol’s (KL7AJ) book titled Radio Science 
> for the Radio Amateur, in which LDEs and other non-linear propagation 
> events are discussed (ch. 11).  Eric considers some of the proposed 
> explanations but concludes that none of them really work.  I heard it 
> myself once on HF, during the sunspot peak many years ago.  As I remember 
> it, the delay was about 1 to 2 seconds.  Truly spooky.
> 
> Ted, KN1CBR
> 
>> Message: 18
>> Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 19:54:40 -0800
>> From: Jack Brindle 
>> To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
>> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] P3 Showing Transmit Signal
>> Message-ID: 
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>> 
>> That would be from me? Amazingly, this was on 80 meters, and was heard 
>> all over the bay area up into central CA. At times the ?echo? was louder 
>> than the direct signal!
>> There are at least two recordings from that event. Very strange, and 
>> extremely interesting. While it was ongoing, both 40 and 80 were open 
>> across NA. When it stopped,
>> 40 collapsed to the point where the only signal heard was VY1AAA, and 80 
>> became only local. In 40+ years of hamming, this is the first time I have 
>> experienced anything like that.
>> I have to say, it was also very cool to experience.
>> 
>> 73,
>> Jack, W6FB
>> 
>>> On Nov 25, 2015, at 11:38 PM, Bill Frantz  wrote:
>>> 
>>> We had a report at the November West Valley Amateur Radio Association 
>>> meeting of one member who experienced "echos" from his own CW 
>>> transmissions during Sweepstakes on November 7-8. He verified by 
>>> listening to another nearby station that the echo was 1/7 second later, 
>>> the time for a radio signal to go around the world. The K3's full break 
>>> in allowed him to hear himself between the morse code units.
>>> 
>>> 73 Bill AE6JV
>>> 
>>> On 11/26/15 at 10:25 PM, arato.and...@wigner.mta.hu (Andras ARATO) 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
 I could see this these days, but it was my signal coming back from 
 around the Earth when transmitting on 21 MHz. It was a good propagation 
 with K=1 and SFI=121. I could hear it too.
 
 73! de HA4AA Andras
>>> 
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Re: [Elecraft] LDEs (Long-Delayed Echos)

[David Cole]

Isn't that the same Peter M that wrote the Dopplergram program?  If so,
he is one smart cookie...  He is in my Dopplergram group on Yahoo, and
the depth of knowledge he demonstrates almost daily is amazing...
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On Sat, 2015-11-28 at 03:08 -0700, Sverre Holm (LA3ZA) wrote:

> There was also an excellent article about it in Radcom by P. Martinez
> (G3PLX), "Long Delayed Echoes, A Study of Magnetospheric Duct Echoes
> 1997-2007," Radcom, Oct 2007, pp. 60-63 (not on the web to my knowledge).
> 
> I have an analysis of several such medium delayed echoes or
> magnetospherically delayed echoes (MDE), including that of G3PLX, here:
> http://la3za.blogspot.no/2010/03/magnetospherically-ducted-echo.html 
> 


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Re: [Elecraft] LDEs (Long-Delayed Echos)

[Sverre Holm (LA3ZA)]

An 80m or 160m signal echo after about 1/7 second may seem like a
round-the-world echo. But it is more likely that it is a ducted signal in
the magnetosphere. The actual delay varies with geomagnetic latitude, and
the further south one is the closer the delay time is to 1/7 second.  

Such signals can be trapped in occasionally occurring, tubular
magnetospheric ducts, which stretch from the northern to the southern
hemispheres along the Earth's magnetic-field lines. 

I wrote about it in QST in 2009 -
http://folk.uio.no/sverre/papers/2009_MagnetoDucting-QST-LA3ZA.pdf.

There was also an excellent article about it in Radcom by P. Martinez
(G3PLX), "Long Delayed Echoes, A Study of Magnetospheric Duct Echoes
1997-2007," Radcom, Oct 2007, pp. 60-63 (not on the web to my knowledge).

I have an analysis of several such medium delayed echoes or
magnetospherically delayed echoes (MDE), including that of G3PLX, here:
http://la3za.blogspot.no/2010/03/magnetospherically-ducted-echo.html 

The echo time can be predicted from latitude, so if I get more data, I can
run my program to estimate the delay time for a given place at a certain
time (geomagnetic latitude rel to geographic latitude varies with time).








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Re: [Elecraft] LDEs (Long-Delayed Echos)

[Stephen Prior]

Yes, he's also the originator of the amateur form of AMTOR and PSK31.

73 Stephen

On 28 November 2015 at 14:13, David Cole  wrote:

> Isn't that the same Peter M that wrote the Dopplergram program?  If so,
> he is one smart cookie...  He is in my Dopplergram group on Yahoo, and
> the depth of knowledge he demonstrates almost daily is amazing...
> --
> Thanks and 73's,
> For equipment, and software setups and reviews see:
> www.nk7z.net
>
> For MixW support see;
> http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/mixw/info
> For Dopplergram information see:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/dopplergram/info
> For MM-SSTV see:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/MM-SSTV/info
>
>
> On Sat, 2015-11-28 at 03:08 -0700, Sverre Holm (LA3ZA) wrote:
>
> > There was also an excellent article about it in Radcom by P. Martinez
> > (G3PLX), "Long Delayed Echoes, A Study of Magnetospheric Duct Echoes
> > 1997-2007," Radcom, Oct 2007, pp. 60-63 (not on the web to my knowledge).
> >
> > I have an analysis of several such medium delayed echoes or
> > magnetospherically delayed echoes (MDE), including that of G3PLX, here:
> > http://la3za.blogspot.no/2010/03/magnetospherically-ducted-echo.html
> >
>
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Re: [Elecraft] LDEs (Long-Delayed Echos)

[David Cole]

I had no idea he was the originator of AMTOR, and PSK31 as well.  That
answers why he know so much...  

He is in the group for support of Dopplergram, and is very active
there... 
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For MM-SSTV see:
http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/MM-SSTV/info


On Sat, 2015-11-28 at 15:04 +, Stephen Prior wrote:
> Yes, he's also the originator of the amateur form of AMTOR and PSK31.
> 
> 73 Stephen
> 
> On 28 November 2015 at 14:13, David Cole  wrote:
> 
> > Isn't that the same Peter M that wrote the Dopplergram program?  If so,
> > he is one smart cookie...  He is in my Dopplergram group on Yahoo, and
> > the depth of knowledge he demonstrates almost daily is amazing...
> > --
> > Thanks and 73's,
> > For equipment, and software setups and reviews see:
> > www.nk7z.net
> >
> > For MixW support see;
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/mixw/info
> > For Dopplergram information see:
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/dopplergram/info
> > For MM-SSTV see:
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/MM-SSTV/info
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 2015-11-28 at 03:08 -0700, Sverre Holm (LA3ZA) wrote:
> >
> > > There was also an excellent article about it in Radcom by P. Martinez
> > > (G3PLX), "Long Delayed Echoes, A Study of Magnetospheric Duct Echoes
> > > 1997-2007," Radcom, Oct 2007, pp. 60-63 (not on the web to my knowledge).
> > >
> > > I have an analysis of several such medium delayed echoes or
> > > magnetospherically delayed echoes (MDE), including that of G3PLX, here:
> > > http://la3za.blogspot.no/2010/03/magnetospherically-ducted-echo.html
> > >
> >
> >
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Re: [Elecraft] LDEs (Long-Delayed Echos)

[mcduffie]

> Yes, he's also the originator of the amateur form of AMTOR and PSK31.

Yes.  Peter was the father of AMTOR, one of the most fun modes there ever was,
in my opinion.  Too bad it died off, especially when today's rigs would handle
it so well.  The throughput rate was just right to keep you humpin' on the
typing and carry on rag chews lasting as long as you didn't run out of material
to chew on.  ;)  By the way, the AMT-1 was his design, if I remember correctly,
and built by AEA, who also built the big PK-232.

Gary
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Re: [Elecraft] LDEs (Long-Delayed Echos)

[Charlie T, K3ICH]

"Amtor" existed long before it was a legal mode on
Amateur radio as "SiTOR", (Simplex Teleprinting
over Radio" ) on commercial maritime circuits. To
my knowledge, there is no basic difference between
Sitor and Amtor.  Only the name is different.

I remember when working for Microlog Corp back in
the 70's, when we were developing the SiTor
terminal programs,  we'd  (illegally to be sure)
fire up the TR-7 on the marine 12 MHz band and
call marine coastal stations to check out our
operating program, asking for radio reports etc.
We knew most of the ops, so nobody cared too much.
Especially if the network was quiet for a while
before we called.  Curiously, the TR-7 IS fast
enough to successfully operate Mode A Amtor.  

Since there was a several month lead time for ads
in QST, I remember getting the inside scoop that
the FCC was about to OK the use of both Mode A
(hand-shake) and mode B (Forward Error Correction)
Sitor, or Amtor if you please on the HAM bands.
The ad was scheduled to come out in the issue of
QST, the same month the FCC OK came out.  This was
the "Now, you can chirp back." Ad and boy was I
sweating bullets that the OK would in fact come
out in time.   Luckily for me, it did so I avoided
a huge "egg-in-the-face" situation.

It was quite a challenge back then to find radios
that would switch (from full power transmit to
full sensitivity receive) fast enough to run mode
A.  This was not break-in CW because almost all
the programs used AFSK with the rigs in SSB mode.
Seems like a century ago..

73, Charlie k3ICH

-Original Message-
From: Elecraft
[mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On
Behalf Of Stephen Prior
Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2015 10:04 AM
To: Elecraft <Elecraft@mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] LDEs (Long-Delayed Echos)

Yes, he's also the originator of the amateur form
of AMTOR and PSK31.

73 Stephen



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Re: [Elecraft] LDEs (Long-Delayed Echos)

[Fred Jensen]

That is my recollection as well.  SITOR is very much alive and well, 
AMTOR, maybe not so much, amateurs tend to move on, sometimes but not 
always ahead of the pack. :-)


NAVTEX is also alive and well, 518 Kcs, I think.

Modes I remember but are more or less moribund:  AMTOR, HF AX.25 pa, AM.

Modes I don't know anything about:  Olivia, anything with more than 3 
tones, and everything that starts with "JT."


73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the Cal QSO Party 1-2 Oct 2016
- www.cqp.org

On 11/28/2015 12:29 PM, Charlie T, K3ICH wrote:

"Amtor" existed long before it was a legal mode on
Amateur radio as "SiTOR", (Simplex Teleprinting
over Radio" ) on commercial maritime circuits. To
my knowledge, there is no basic difference between
Sitor and Amtor.  Only the name is different.


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Re: [Elecraft] LDEs (Long-Delayed Echos)

[Phil Kane]

On 11/28/2015 4:44 PM, Fred Jensen wrote:

> That is my recollection as well.  SITOR is very much alive and well,

> NAVTEX is also alive and well, 518 Kcs, I think.

SITOR is the mode of choice for USCG bulletins on HF  and their NAVTEX
equivalent on 518 kHz.  The "official" name for SITOR is NBDP (Narrow
Band Direct Printing).  San Francisco Marine Radio (Station KSM)
transmits press and weather on Saturday afternoons using both RTTY and
SITOR  My PK-232 decodes SITOR when used in AMTOR  mode when I can get a
decent signal on their 8 MHz or 12 MHz frequencies.  I've given up on
NAVTEX (poor antenna).

Unfortunately the USCG 8416.5 MHz transmissions  fall in the "gap" in K3
coverage.  I'm still looking to replace my 35+ year old Kenwood R-5000
Communications Receiver with a more modern one - but no luck so far.

73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
Elecraft K2/100   s/n 5402

>From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest
Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon
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[Elecraft] LDEs (Long-Delayed Echos)

[Dauer, Edward]

I just finished reading Eric Nichol’s (KL7AJ) book titled Radio Science 
for the Radio Amateur, in which LDEs and other non-linear propagation 
events are discussed (ch. 11).  Eric considers some of the proposed 
explanations but concludes that none of them really work.  I heard it 
myself once on HF, during the sunspot peak many years ago.  As I remember 
it, the delay was about 1 to 2 seconds.  Truly spooky.

Ted, KN1CBR

>Message: 18
>Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 19:54:40 -0800
>From: Jack Brindle 
>To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
>Subject: Re: [Elecraft] P3 Showing Transmit Signal
>Message-ID: 
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>
>That would be from me? Amazingly, this was on 80 meters, and was heard 
>all over the bay area up into central CA. At times the ?echo? was louder 
>than the direct signal!
>There are at least two recordings from that event. Very strange, and 
>extremely interesting. While it was ongoing, both 40 and 80 were open 
>across NA. When it stopped,
>40 collapsed to the point where the only signal heard was VY1AAA, and 80 
>became only local. In 40+ years of hamming, this is the first time I have 
>experienced anything like that.
>I have to say, it was also very cool to experience.
>
>73,
>Jack, W6FB
>
>> On Nov 25, 2015, at 11:38 PM, Bill Frantz  wrote:
>> 
>> We had a report at the November West Valley Amateur Radio Association 
>>meeting of one member who experienced "echos" from his own CW 
>>transmissions during Sweepstakes on November 7-8. He verified by 
>>listening to another nearby station that the echo was 1/7 second later, 
>>the time for a radio signal to go around the world. The K3's full break 
>>in allowed him to hear himself between the morse code units.
>> 
>> 73 Bill AE6JV
>> 
>> On 11/26/15 at 10:25 PM, arato.and...@wigner.mta.hu (Andras ARATO) 
>>wrote:
>> 
>>> I could see this these days, but it was my signal coming back from 
>>>around the Earth when transmitting on 21 MHz. It was a good propagation 
>>>with K=1 and SFI=121. I could hear it too.
>>> 
>>> 73! de HA4AA Andras
>> 
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>> (408)356-8506  | over lies and hate.  | 16345 Englewood Ave
>> www.pwpconsult.com |   - Vaclav Havel | Los Gatos, CA 95032
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